{"id":66572,"date":"2026-02-17T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-was-the-living-bridge-between-king-and-obama\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:04:07","slug":"jesse-jackson-was-the-living-bridge-between-king-and-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-was-the-living-bridge-between-king-and-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Jackson was the living bridge between King and Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson\u2019s two presidential runs brought the civil rights movement into the heart of the Democratic party and opened doors for others to walk through<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-death-tributes-memories\">Share your tributes and memories of Jesse Jackson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He witnessed the assassination of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/martin-luther-king\">Martin Luther King<\/a> at the Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Forty years later, he joined the jubilant crowd in Chicago\u2019s Grant Park to greet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/barack-obama\">Barack Obama<\/a>\u2019s election victory and had tears streaming down his face.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/jesse-jackson\">Jesse Jackson<\/a>, who died on Tuesday at the age of 84, was hailed by Martin Luther King III and his wife Andrea King as \u201ca living bridge between generations\u201d. He was the most influential African American political voice between King and Obama. His two runs for the Democratic nomination created the imaginative space for a Black president. He was the architect of a \u201crainbow coalition\u201d that shapes the Democratic party today.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/17\/jesse-jackson-legacy-king-obama\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson\u2019s two presidential runs brought the civil rights movement into the heart of the Democratic party and opened doors for others to walk through Share your tributes and memories of Jesse Jackson He witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King at the Lorraine motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Forty years later, he joined the jubilant crowd &#8230; <a title=\"Jesse Jackson was the living bridge between King and Obama\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/17\/jesse-jackson-was-the-living-bridge-between-king-and-obama\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jesse Jackson was the living bridge between King and Obama\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}